期刊名称：Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education
电子版ISSN：1175-2882
出版年度：2002
卷号：3
期号：2
页码：35-44
出版社：New Zealand Association for Cooperative Edcuation
摘要：Students from the University of Waikato’s cooperative education program completed a questionnaire (n=71) in which they rated the relative importance of a list of 24 workplace competencies (using a 7-point Likert scale) for graduates entering the workforce now, and those who will do so in 10 years time. The top five ranked competencies in order were; ability and willingness to learn, initiative, achievement orientation, personal planning and organizational skills, and analytical thinking. Comparison with business sector students showed some differences in what students thought were the most important competencies, with business students ranking computer literacy, teamwork and cooperation and self-confidence more highly than their science and technology counterparts. The science and technology students saw computer literacy as the competency most likely to increase in importance in the future. The results of the present work show that science and technology students believed all competencies were important and that both ‘hard’ skills and ‘soft’ skills are important, suggesting that they perceive a need to be multi-skilled before entering the workforce. However, comparison of these data with that of science and technology employers, suggests that the employers see hard skills as well as teamwork and cooperation as more important (ranked second most important).
